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MANCHESTER’S Hexagon Tower – the UK’s only vertical science park – is included in a portfolio of five science parks in a £95m deal.US investment manager Angelo Gordon and Trinity Investment Management have completed the purchase of Mars Pension Fund’s Business Environments for Science and Technology (BEST).The portfolio, which covers 348 acres across the five sites, is the largest privately-owned network of science and technology parks in the UK.Hexagon Tower in Blackley north of central Manches.

APPROVAL has been granted for a £160m development at Alderley Park in Cheshire.The scheme, including a 410,000 sq ft laboratory in addition to more than 1 million sq ft of space for life sciences already in place and could secure as many as 7,000 jobs, was approved today by Cheshire East Council’s strategic planning board.There will also be offices and light manufacturing, 16,000sq ft of retail, restaurant, a pub, 275 homes and a 100-bed hotel.Rowena Burns, chief executive of Manchester Science Partnerships said: ...